PREFACE.
The Supreme Court of the Canal Zone was organized pursuant to the provisions of Act No. 1, of the Isthmian Canal Commission, enacted August 16, 1904.
The court ceased to exist on July 1, 1914, by reason of the Executive Order of the President of the United States of America, dated March 12, 1914, putting into operation the Act of Congress of August 24, 1912.
The two volumes printed in this book contain all of the opinions rendered by -the Supreme Court of the Canal Zone. The second volume was prepared and this book compiled by the undersigned at the request and under the direction of the Justices of the Supreme Court.
THEODORE C. HINCKLEY,
STEVENS GANSON,
Of the Canal Zone Bar.

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